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S.C. Code Ann. § 12-37-280

Reimbursement of localities for tax loss due to homestead exemption

1962 Code SECTION 65-1522.3; 1971 (57) 709; 1978 Act No. 644, Part II, SECTION 20; 1998 Act No. 419, Part II, SECTION 29G; 2006 Act No. 386, SECTION 55.I, eff June 14, 2006.

(A) A county, municipality, school district, and special district in which a person who has reached the age of sixty-five years receives a homestead property tax exemption must be reimbursed for the exemption from the Trust Fund for Tax Relief. The reimbursement must be made by the department on an annual basis on the terms and subject to the conditions as it may prescribe.

(B) This section does not authorize property tax exemption other than as provided for by the laws and Constitution of this State.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.